Why CFP 2.0 needs devolution

2011-01-13T12:14:00

Consumers need to be reassured that buying wild-caught fish is not environmentally wrong. Credit: OsvaldoGago

Europe’s Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) has been widely criticised as being top down, over-centralised and having only at best a mixed performance in managing member states’ fisheries. Certainly it’s one of the longest-established and more controversial of the European Commission’s common policies, so with wholesale reform due for introduction in ...

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